...at a month old, when his eyes had been open for but a week, he was beginning himself to eat meat—meat half-digested by the she-wolf and disgorged for the five growing cubs...

Jack London -- White Fang

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Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.

Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

In the town, rain drummed on every door and window, but everyone stayed locked and shuttered inside their cottages as we ran unnoticed through the flooding streets, past scattered roof tiles torn away by the wind, past a single rain-blinded sheep lost and crying, past a tipped outhouse disgorging itself into the road, to the fishmonger’s shop.

Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Below us a coach stopped to disgorge another load of visitors outside the castle gates.

Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You

In mid arc the plastic exploded, disgorging an impossible number of rotten bananas.

Rick Riordan -- The Trials of Apollo

Sophie was able somehow to disgorge an appreciative laugh, but at the moment she felt so despairingly low, so ill, that she thought she might go mad.

William Styron -- Sophie’s Choice

The elevators moved more slowly now and disgorged fewer beings.

Suzanne Collins -- Mockingjay

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After some minutes the local picture houses disgorged their audiences.

Albert Camus -- The Stranger

—The attendant has just been to see me to say that Renfield has been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of feathers.

Bram Stoker -- Dracula

Tea Cake took it and filled his mouth then gagged horribly, disgorged that which was in his mouth and threw the glass upon the floor.

Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

We entered this haven through a wicket-gate, and were disgorged by an introductory passage into a melancholy little square that looked to me like a flat burying-ground.

Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations

Returning to her own room, Kitty had thrown the purse into a corner, where it lay open, disgorging three or four gold pieces on the carpet.

Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers

Buckley was standing now, but he looked first down at his shoes and then over his shoulder, out past the window to where the planes were parked, disgorging their passengers into accordioned tubes.

Alice Sebold -- The Lovely Bones

And every day the trains just below Five Points disgorged more sick and more wounded.

Margaret Mitchell -- Gone with the Wind

At times, when closely pursued, he will disgorge what are supposed to be the detached arms of the squid; some of them thus exhibited exceeding twenty and thirty feet in length.

Herman Melville -- Moby Dick

You’d think with all the money they’ve got they’d disgorge a little, so we wouldn’t have to bump like farmers on a hay cart!

Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged

What had happened in the last seven hours I still did not know; nor did I know, though I was beginning to guess, the relation between these mechanical colossi and the sluggish lumps I had seen disgorged from the cylinder.

H.G. Wells -- The War of the Worlds

From inside, Roran watched as cords of gray water pelted the trees with their frothing leaves, muddied the trench around Carvahall, and scrabbled with blunt fingers against the thatched roofs and eaves as the clouds disgorged their load.

Christopher Paolini -- Eldest

Zeus did indeed feed Kronos a mixture of mustard and wine, which made him disgorge his other five children, who, of course, being immortal gods, had been living and growing up completely undigested in the Titan’s stomach.

Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief

It was there, in fact, that the three bridges disgorged upon the right bank, and bridges lead to the building of houses rather than palaces.

Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

’Then,’ said Traddles, ’you must prepare to disgorge all that your rapacity has become possessed of, and to make restoration to the last farthing.

Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield

Also, a dragon can disgorge their Eldunari while they are still alive.

Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr

It dawned on him at the same time that when he joined the westward stream he would have to disgorge the store, into a larder or something of that sort.

T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

Alleys and archways, like so many cesspools, disgorged their offences of smell, and dirt, and life, upon the straggling streets; and the whole quarter reeked with crime, with filth, and misery.

Charles Dickens -- A Christmas Carol

Paul looked down, saw the dust-defined pillar of hot wind that had disgorged them, saw the dying storm trailing away like a dry river into the desert—moon-gray motion growing smaller and smaller below as they rode the updraft.

Frank Herbert -- Dune

Lots of rich girls are so rich they are just above paying bills and you have to pinch them to make them disgorge.

Robert Penn Warren -- All the King’s Men

The milk he had sucked with his first flickering life, was milk transformed directly from meat, and now, at a month old, when his eyes had been open for but a week, he was beginning himself to eat meat—meat half-digested by the she-wolf and disgorged for the five growing cubs that already made too great demand upon her breast.

Jack London -- White Fang

Then, sitting on a pitch pine bough, they attempt to swallow in their haste a kernel which is too big for their throats and chokes them; and after great labor they disgorge it, and spend an hour in the endeavor to crack it by repeated blows with their bills.

Henry David Thoreau -- Walden

With his magic, he caused her to disgorge them: they came out alive and whole.

Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces

"Yes, yes, fine," said the Prime Minister distractedly, and he barely flinched as the flames in the grate turned emerald green again, rose up, and revealed a second spinning wizard in their heart, disgorging him moments later onto the antique rug.

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

But there was nothing to be ready for; the taxi drove away without disgorging anyone.

Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy

Most mischievous foul sin, in chiding sin; For thou thyself hast been a libertine, As sensual as the brutish sting itself; And all the embossed sores and headed evils That thou with license of free foot hast caught Wouldst thou disgorge into the general world.

William Shakespeare -- As You Like It

But on Saturday suddenly the whole county disgorges itself upon the place, and a perfect flood of black peasantry pours through the streets, fills the stores, blocks the sidewalks, chokes the thoroughfares, and takes full possession of the town.

W. E. B. Du Bois -- The Souls of Black Folk

Harry, Ginny and Neville and each of the Death Eaters turned in spite of themselves to watch the top of the tank as a brain burst from the green liquid like a leaping fish: for a moment it seemed suspended in midair, then it soared towards Ron, spinning as it came, and what looked like ribbons of moving images flew from it, unravelling like rolls of film’Ha ha ha, Harry, look at it —’ said Ron, watching it disgorge its gaudy innards, ’Harry come and touch it; bet it’s weird —’

J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

All morning long, automobiles and special trains disgorged thousands and thousands of passengers from every corner of the nation and the world; the assembly of foreign dignitaries alone equaled a normal day’s attendance.

Laura Hillenbrand -- Seabiscuit

While these things were being said and done, and long before they were concluded, the omnibus had disgorged Miss La Creevy and her escort, and they had arrived at her own door.

Charles Dickens -- Nicholas Nickleby

Another part, in squadrons and gross bands, On bold adventure to discover wide That dismal world, if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation, bend Four ways their flying march, along the banks Of four infernal rivers, that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams— Abhorred Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep; Cocytus, named of lamentation loud Heard on the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton, Whose waves of torrent fire inflame…

John Milton -- Paradise Lost

It halted only long enough to disgorge the two dogs: a thousand costly tons of intricate and curious metal glaring and crashing up and into an almost shocking silence filled with the puny sounds of men, to vomit two gaunt and cringing phantoms whose droopeared and mild faces gazed with sad abjectness about at the weary, pale faces of men who had not slept very much since night before last, ringing them about with something terrible and eager and impotent.

William Faulkner -- Light in August

Two crisscross strokes, and the ganglion disgorged a mixture of blood and pus.